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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If I were leadership in Iran, I'd read discontent with the forthcoming deal as confirmation that many people thought Iran could have come out stronger. If this actually goes through, this will have been the profoundest foreign policy defeat in American history after Iraq (2003) and Vietnam (1975).

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/06/2026

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 20/05/2026

Pennsylvania U.S. House District 3 Dem Primary – CALLED for Rabb 82% Reported: 🔵 Christopher Rabb – 52,349 (43.3%) 🔵 Sharif Street – 35,915 (29.7%) 🔵 Ala Stanford – 30,031 (24.8%) Votes from @DecisionDeskHQ

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

One of the best essays I've ever read on the cost of war is Lee Sandlin's "Losing the War," in the Chicago Reader. I first learned of it in the Sept. 28, 2001 episode of This American Life, #195, "War Stories." chicagoreader.com/news/losing-...

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Losing the War - Chicago Reader

World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives nobody cares about anymore.

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This one is a little hard to describe without illustrating. My first manuscript research was in the 18th-century records of the Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions, where I encountered three conventions I’d never seen before, all in the same entry:

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The Lord hears the cry of the poor. -- Psalm 34

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Sometimes the metaphors create themselves. 🗃️

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I don't disagree with this, and it's probably good advice given the LA context. But I also can imagine a flood-the-zone counter-tactic, in which there are not just US flags but the flags of every immigrant group's nation of origin.

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

For no particular reason I've been thinking about this image from a book of fairy tales from Ireland in the 1960s. A fisherman catches a flounder who is a fairy prince in disguise, and gets the fish to agree to grant his wife’s wishes. The wife asks for increasingly exalted riches and position, 1/2

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Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Women can have a little fertilization, for a treat

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

For years I have said in class that we should hold an annual habeas corpus festival in the university plaza to celebrate the most basic and most underappreciated right we have. If just a tiny handful of students have remembered this, my teaching career will have been worth it.

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

On George. Washington's birthday, from his Farewell Address (1796): "It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, . . .

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In 1991, I bought a house with an FHA loan, so I didn't need a deposit. I also attended an NEH Institute on US history. Today, I'm teaching my last term as a university professor, living in that same house, and using many of the things I learned that summer. A great society invests in its citizens.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 05/02/2025

OPINION: "(Paul Laurence) Dunbar’s artistic legacy is often overlooked. This, despite the fact that his work influenced a number of other great African American literary giants, including Langston Hughes," Daniel-Cox writes.

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Opinion | Paul Laurence Dunbar Gave Dignity to the Black Experience

Minnita Daniel-Cox writes on the life and legacy of Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and his work that reflected the lives of African Americans.

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Can you believe it? And you know what? They’ve gotta get much tougher. I’m gonna go there in the next two weeks. I’m going to Springfield and . . to Aurora. You may never see me again, but that’s ok. I gotta do what I gotta do. “Whatever happened to Trump?” “Well, he never got out of Springfield.”

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Donald Trump said this last night (my transcription, courtesy of @Acyn on X): How about in Springfield Ohio? They had 32,000—this is a little beautiful town, no crime, no problem—32,000 illegal immigrants come into the town, 32, so they almost doubled their population in a period of a few weeks. . .

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #660,023!

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Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

@rauchway.bsky.social Please add me to "What's History?" Thank you!

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